Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab: offers excellent, up to date resources on a range of writing concerns, from research and citation to sentence style and writing in specific disciplines.

The University of Richmond’s Writer’s Web: provides an easy to use guide to the entire writing process with advice on getting started, focusing your ideas, documenting sources, and editing for style, clarity, and grammar.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Handouts and Resources: offers individual handouts on all stages of the writing process and on different kinds of writing.

Grammar and Mechanics

Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing:allows you to search a database of interactive explanations and exercises for common grammatical and structural problems.

Grammar NOW!: a free site where you can submit questions about grammar or look up specific explanations or examples.

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Documentation and Research

Modern Language Association: the official site for MLA style and documentation. At the home page, look for the “MLA Style” link to go to a page of frequently asked questions about formatting and documenting sources.

Purdue University’s Research and Citations: offers a general guide to writing research papers, with advice for doing research on the internet, evaluating sources, paraphrasing, and writing an annotated bibliography — in MLA, APA, or Chicago Documentation Styles.